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Full moon memory walk hits 13th year

Create: 09/14/2017 - 02:56
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Rick Garrick

The 13th Annual Full Moon Memory Walk was kicked off with a screening of the Go Home, Baby Girl documentary film and comments by Ceejai Julian at Lakehead University on Sept. 5.

“Ceejai shared her story after the documentary and there was questions and comments,” says Sharon Johnson, organizer of the Full Moon Memory Walk, which was held on Sept. 6 from Thunder Bay City Hall to the Neebing-McIntyre Floodway where Johnson’s sister Sandra was found murdered in 1992. “Everybody was just impressed with her strength to keep on going after all she went through.”

Grades given for Seven youth recommendations

Create: 08/25/2017 - 01:39
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Rick Garrick

First Nation education service providers received the highest grades in the Aboriginal Legal Services 2017 Report Card on Recommendations from the First Nations Youth Inquest. Keewaytinook Okimakanak received 85 per cent, Matawa Learning Centre received 82 per cent and Northern Nishnawbe Education Council and Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School received 80 per cent.

Local food production focus of 2017 NAN food symposium

Create: 08/23/2017 - 23:01
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Rick Garrick

Local food production was the focus of the first day of the 9th Nishnawbe Aski Nation Food Symposium at three garden sites in Thunder Bay and Fort William.

“It’s amazing — everything is beneficial for the First Nations, especially up north,” says Matachewan Chief Alex Batisse on the first day of the Aug. 22-24 food symposium. “It’s a high cost to get food in there, so this would be really beneficial for them.”

Pikangikum First Nation to connect to Ontario power grid

Create: 08/17/2017 - 23:17
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Rick Garrick

The “first step” of the Wataynikaneyap Power line, from Red Lake to Pikangikum, was announced by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Minister Carolyn Bennett on Aug. 17.

“This is about planning for a region as well as for a community,” Bennett says. “This mustn’t be viewed as a one-off initiative; this is about a first step for a region.”

Kasabonika youth attend national science camp

Create: 08/01/2017 - 00:29
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Rick Garrick

Kasabonika Lake’s Joe Brown enjoyed meeting Indigenous youth from across Canada at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada’s week-long National Science Camp in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

“It was fun — I enjoyed it,” says Brown, a Grade 8 graduate from the Chief Simeon McKay Education Centre in Kasabonika. “I became friends with almost everyone, people from all around Canada.”

Brown says the National Science Camp, held from July 16-22, included a variety of scientific activities and a visit to the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina for youth from 12-15 years old.

UPDATE: Death of Cat Lake man 'accidental' inquest says

Create: 07/26/2017 - 22:19
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Rick Garrick

The 2010 death of Romeo Wesley at the Cat Lake Nursing Station was ruled as accidental by the jury at the coroner’s inquest into his death in Cat Lake. The jury ruled the cause of death was “struggle and restraint (chest compression, prone positioning, handcuffing) as well as agitation and trauma (pain) in a man with a KCNJ2 mutation with acute alcohol withdrawal/delirium tremens.”

North Star Air running trial flights with new aircraft

Create: 07/25/2017 - 01:49
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Rick Garrick

North Star Air’s new ATR 42-300 two-engine turboprop aircraft was a hit with passengers on the July 18 Flex Flight route from Eabametoong, Neskantaga and Webequie to Thunder Bay.

“The flight was good, the seatings were good, everything was good,” says Irene Boyce, from Eabametoong. “You can use the washroom in there too, so yeah, I enjoyed my flight.”

Roy Moonias, from Neskantaga, says it was an “awesome” flight on the ATR 42-300, which is being leased from West Wind Air, a First Nations and employee-owned airline based in Saskatchewan.

Youth runners winning medals at NAIG 2017

Create: 07/22/2017 - 01:11
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Rick Garrick

Kashechewan runner Gavin Wesley’s silver medal in the 19U Male X-Country 6km was the first of four medals he won at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) 2017 in Toronto.

“One of the Saskatchewan runners kept a fast pace, so I just tried to maintain striking distance,” Wesley says. “And it paid off — he started to slow down but one of the Manitoba guys beat me in the last 100 metres, so that is how I got the silver.”

Wesley also won another silver and two bronze medals at NAIG.

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